linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Fix bugs in memcontroller cgroup tests

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Message-ID: <20220512174452.tr34tuh4k5jm6qjs@dev0025.ash9.facebook.com>
Date:   Thu, 12 May 2022 10:44:52 -0700
From:   David Vernet <void@...ifault.com>
To:     Michal Koutný <mkoutny@...e.com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, tj@...nel.org, roman.gushchin@...ux.dev,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        cgroups@...r.kernel.org, hannes@...xchg.org, mhocko@...nel.org,
        shakeelb@...gle.com, kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Fix bugs in memcontroller cgroup tests

On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 10:30:18AM -0700, David Vernet wrote:
> Hi Michal,
> 
> On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 07:04:10PM +0200, Michal Koutný wrote:
> > Are the Roman's patches merged anywhere? (I ran into some issues when I
> > was rebasing your (David's) series on top of master.) I'd like to put
> > all sensible patches in one series or stack on existing branch (if
> > there's any).
> 
> Roman's patches are present on master on the linux-mm tree. See
> b7dbfd6553d..a131b1ed12c6.
> 
> > For possible v3 of this series, I did:
> >   - dropped the patch that allows non-zero memory.events:low for a sibling with
> >     memory.low=0 when mounted with memory_recursiveprot (the case needs more
> >     discussion),
> 
> Ack, and thanks for keeping us steered in the right direction here. I don't
> see this in the patch set you linked, but I agree this commit should be
> reverted and the reclaim logic instead fixed.
> 
> >   - added few more cleanups, convenience for debugging,
> 
> Are you referring to the FAIL() macro you added? I would love to Ack that,
> but unfortunately checkpatch.pl will probably yell at you for having a goto
> in that macro, per the point about avoiding macros that affect control flow
> [0].
> 
> I tried to do the same thing when sending out my patch set and had to
> revert it before sending it to upstream.
> 
> Thanks,
> David
> 
> [0] https://github.com/Werkov/linux/commit/a076339cc4825af2f22f58c1347a572b104b8221

Sorry, I meant to link this:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/coding-style.html#macros-enums-and-rtl